Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-15
down TO DEATH.
A Crowded Passenger Train Goes
Through a Bridge on the Boston
and Providence Railway.
The Cars Are Mashed and Piled Up In
IN UnrecOgniz4bIe MaSs-The
Dead Horribly Mapgled.
Twenty Three People Killed Outright and
100 Iujured-PartisI List of Dead
and Wounded.
An AWFUL ACCIDENT.

! An AWFUL ACCIDENT.
BOsToN, MASS, March LIT is re-
ported that heavily loaded passenger
train on the Boston and Providence Rail
road met with terrible accident about I
O'Clock this morning, between ROsliudale
and Forrest Hill. Four cars are said to
have gone through the bridge, and many
persons We're killed. A wreckiug train
has left here for the scene of the accident.
Nineteen bodies have already been taken
from the ruins.
The latest sdvices from the scene of
the accident on the Boston and Provi-
denCe Railroad indicate that thirty-three
persons were killed and forty injured.
Among these are many women. CondIc-
tor Tllden was among the killed.
The accident this morning occurred on
the Dsdhem branch Of the Boston and
Providence Railroad, between Forest
| Hill and ROslindale, st VIII t is known as
| Bussey Park bridge. The O'Clock train
from Dedham, consisting of seven cars
and baggage car, under charge of Con-
duCtOr T1ldtn, broke through the bridge.
The engine and three cars went over
safely, but the four others fell through
! the bridge to the road beneath, distance
of thirty feet. The last car which
vas the smoker turned completely over
and struck on top OF the others, ali being
crushed almost out of sight. The cause
! of the accident is said TO have been the
| breaking OF the bridge Reports as to
the number of passengers and persons
killed vary greatly, ana it is impossible
as yet 10 give the total number of vic
tins.
Ii is stated that the bridge where the
accident occurred this morning was 8
comparatively new one and that The acct
dent was caused 0y a truck on one of the
cars giving way, causing the cars to strike
against the abutment of the bridge The
smoking car after it fell caught fire, but
the fire department was promptly on hand
and prevented any spread of the flames
| The bodies of the dead have all been re-
moved and of the wounded some are at
the hospitals and some have beer taken
home, so that it is very difficult to obtain
the names and extent Of the injuries at
the present time. Among the killed are:
CONDUCTOR TILDEN,
SERGEANT TAYLOR of the West Box
bury vision of the Boston police,
W L Snow,
ALICE BURNETT of RosIinGaIe,
MABEL ADAMS and
FRANK NORRIS of Dedham,
HARRY GAY, mOrtally injured and dying
Among the injured are:
FRANK PLUMMER,
NELLIE PALMER,
MRS AMES,
GEORGE LORD,
L. A CARR,
Mrs LIPPINCOTT,
CASSIE; SMITHER DRIsKO,
GEORGE MAY and
FRED Z. SCHROEDER.
Many of the injured were brought to
the hospitals in this city. Some of the
killed have been Identified The train
was crowded with working people, and
the most intense excitement prevails
among their friends who are anxious to
learn the names Of those killed and in
jured. There are no reliable details of
the number of dead. The police say
Ihrty-thTee were killed outright, and
that nearly as many more will die.
WEBSTER CLAPP died in Forest Hill
station where he mad been taken.
The Ulcers Of the road are present
and are doing all they can. Many doc
tors are there doing everything in their
power. Superintendent Folsom says he
does not know INV many were k He'd or
injured. The bodies of the killed are
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